The ODIN Office conducted an informational session highlighting the latest features from the Alma/Primo VE August Release.
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Agenda:
General Updates
- Release Schedule
- PSB release = July 20th
- Production release = Aug. 3rd
- Release update & PSB refresh = Aug. 10th
- Knowledge Center's AI Assistant now embedded in Alma
- New Title Search UX is now the default
- 'Save as New' button
- Quick links menu
- Hide/Allow as many Cloud Apps as needed
Resource Management
- New label indicating no items in a holdings has been updated to "No items"
- Additional information button in the record view and other pages is now also available in the title and holdings view. This button shows creation and modification information of a record
- Add and Duplicate Search rule buttons in the advanced search and indications rules used to only appear when hovering over a rule, but now they always show.
- Titles and holdings in an itemized set can now be sorted.
- New “View Items” option is available in the Metadata Editor, under the View Related Data menu
- A virtual keyboard is available in the Metadata Editor for inserting special characters and diacritics. It is found under Editing Actions > Insert Unicode Characters or Ctrl+Alt+P
- There are two new options when using the Withdraw Physical Items job.
- Suppress holdings from publishing; keep bibliographic record
- Delete holdings; keep bibliographic record
Acquisitions
New actions are displayed in the PO lines list view
Actions Customization area – users can now re-order the actions of the PO lines and hide irrelevant actions
Link to additional information from PO lines
Delete PO page was updated
Fulfillment/Resource Sharing
Save Facets Option in Resource Sharing Task Lists
Gender Field in User Management was Removed
Cancelling Recalls on Resource Sharing Items
Setting Status of Renewed Lending Requests to Renewal Accepted
Show Lending Library on Receive Item Screen
Patron Last Activity Date Updated at Login
Internal Reject Reasons for Lending Requests
Fulfillment Note in Shipped Item
Creating a Resource Sharing Request from a Purchase Request
Allow Automatic Renewals for Resource Sharing Loans
Library Controlled Additional ID for Hold Requests
Grace Period for Open Days
Additional options for Bulk Fine Waiving
Primo VE
Thumbnail Display for Collections – background images in the Collection discovery page – not available until January.
Exact Title Search in Advanced Search for Titles – matches on MARC 245 $a$b or 245 $a. If you want this options, put in ticket so we can contact support to request set-up and reindexing.
New parameter in Configuration>Discovery>Other>Customer Settings. If set to TRUE, titles without inventory will be suppressed in Primo.
More features added for NDE UI:
Featured Newspapers
Support AZ List in Journal Search – similar to what is in PrimoVE with different appearance.
Fetch Item (Citation Linker)
Availability in Other Institutions – separate section than Locations (Primo VE)
Database Search – similar to Journal Search above
Discussion/Q&A